Garment-holder



l(No Model.)

E- L. OCONNOR.

GARMENT HOLDER.

No. 452,727. Patented May 19,1891.

vUNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EDWARD L. OCONNOR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SYLVAN DALSIMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 452,727, dated May 19, 1891.l

Application tiled August 2, 1890. Serial No. 360,774. (No model.)

T all whom, t may concern: placed thereon until all of the garments are Be it known that I, EDWARD L. OCONNOR, so disposed, thus building up a bundle which a citizen of the United States, residing at Oinis held together by the straps E, which are cinnati, in the county of Hamilton, State of passed through the loops D, and buckled or Ohio, have invented a new and useful Imotherwise fastened. The bundle as now 55 provement in Garment Holders and Protectformed may be placed in a trunk, tbc., as in ors for Trunks, dre., which improvement is Fig. 2, or have carrying-straps placed around fully set forth in the following specification the same, as in Fig. 3, it being evident that and accompanying drawings. the garments, the., are clamped between the io My invention consists of a garment holder frames, and thus prevented from coming to- 6o and protector for a trunk, dsc., formed of adgether or gathering, whereby they are neither j ustable frames between which garments, ttc., rumpled or mussed while packed when carried. may be held, and means for connecting said If desired, slats or boards may alternatewith frames and preventing separation ofthe same, the frames, and garments, tbc., made to suswhereby the garments, the., are guarded tain the latter in the space within the sides 65 against improper folding, rumpling, the., or of the frame. The loops D are of the form gathering at one end of the holder or of the of angle-plates, so that a strap may be passed trunk when packed therein. through either side of the same, thus stiffen- Figure l represents a perspective view of ing or bracing the corners of the frames4 zo a garment holder and protector embodying Having thus described my invention, what 7o myinvention. Fig. 2 representsaperspective I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- View of atrunk partly broken away, showing ters Patent, is` the garment holder and protector therein. l. A garment-holder having frames com Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the posed of adjustable side and end bars, corner holder and protector when employed as a loops or eyes by which said frames are sup- 75 carrying device independent of a trunk, tbc. ported in position, and a connecting device Figs. 4 and 5 represent sections of modificato engage said loops or eyes, substantially as tions on enlarged scales. described.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- 2. A garment-holder consisting of two or 3o spending parts in the several ligures. more frames havingadjustable side and end So Referring to the drawings, A designates a bars, adj Listing-screws between theouter ends frame whose sides are formed of adj ustablyof said bars to hold the same in adjusted po connected slats, bars, or tubes B, with screws sition, slotted corner-plates secured to said C connected therewith, said slats or bars beframes, and connecting mechanismmbetween ing placed side by side, so as to slide one on the plates of the frames, whereby the said 85 the other in order to increase or decrease the frames may be supported in position, sublength of the sides, and consequently the distantially as described. mensions of the frame, the same result being 3. A garment-holder consisting of two or accomplished by tubes which are fitted to more frames having adjustable side and end 4o each other telescopically, as in Fig. 5. At bars, fastening means for said bars, slotted 9o the corners of the frame are slotted plates, plates or loops connected to the corners of ears, eyes, orloops D, throughwhich arepassed said frames, and connecting means adapted straps E, whereby several frames may be to pass through said slotted plates or loops coupled or connected one with the other. to hold said frames together, substantially as The operation is asfollows: As manyframes described.

are employed as required, and the same are adjusted to the dimensions of garments, dac., folded or unfolded, or both, to be packed. Witnesses:

The garments, ttc., are placed between the JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

5o frames and other garments, duc., and frames A. P. JENNINGS.

EDVARD L. OOONNOR. 

